Joe Erwin selected as honoree for Greenville Drive’s Green Day event

Local businessman Joe Erwin has been selected as the honoree for the Greenville Drive’s 11th annual Green Day event, according to team owner and President Craig Brown.

Brown, speaking at a networking event for creative services and independent company workers, said Erwin “personifies the drive, the ambition, the work ethic that has made Greenville the wonderful town that it is.”

Erwin is “one of Greenville’s true leaders,” Brown said.

Erwin, co-founder and former president of national advertising agency Erwin Penland, called the tribute “a great honor.”

Erwin established Erwin Creates, a company continuing the legacy he has built over the last 30 years of cultivating, growing and influencing a creative community throughout South Carolina.

Erwin Creates will support the Erwin Center for Brand Communications at Clemson University and Erwin’s personal consulting requests, but its centerpiece will be a new creative community called Endeavor.

Endeavor, a membership-based co-working community for independent companies and freelancers in the creative services field, is located in downtown Greenville.

Erwin will be honored during the Drive baseball game at Fluor Field Aug. 2.